I received the same phone call and scam this afternoon. He informed me that there was a warrant out for my arrest and that agents would be arriving at my home within the next five minutes with a search warrant. I called the local police department who were outstanding.
I will make the appropriate complaints to the US Border and Customs, DEA and our local Prosecuting Attorney in the morning.
My fiance hopes they show up at the house this evening!
just got the same scam. Rcvd a call from a Det. Howard Valdini. Stated I ordered Rx via the phone 4 years ago. I hadn't. Said he was working an investigation on a drug ring from out of the country and my name and phone number was in thier data base. He also changed to cocaine somewhere in the story. Not sure what he was accusing me of. Either way, I knew I hadn't done anything. When I persisted to say, I knew I wasn't involved & welcomed an investigation. He became annoyed. When I asked him if he was the person my lawyer should contact he backed up and said their was no need for an atty at this time as it was just an investigation. I called him back about 30 minutes later to ask for more information since according to him someone was using my name and phone number to obtain illegal narcotics. I left a message stating I needed all info because I wanted to start an identity theft investigation. He never called back.
this special seargent agent howad vladini is a scam , he also goes by seceral alias i called the DEA myself they dont use the words special agent or seargent there's no such title and they are already aware of this guy, he tries to scare you into sending money or be arrested just ask him for a number your attorney can call and he'll go away
I have received a call from Howard today. I called back once and got a voice mail. He returned the but left a vm again. It didn't sound right from the beginning and I became concerned. I googled the phone number he left and here I am. I am reporting this to our legal counsel because he called my work number.